An Evening at Anthony Scaramucci's Steakhouse
The Hunt & Fish Club in Midtown Manhattan looks nothing like it sounds. There are no deer heads on the wall, no trout trophies, no pheasants taxidermied to appear as if in mid-flight. Most of the surfaces are mirrored, and the ones that aren’t are made of marble. It looks like the basement ballroom of a two-star Vegas hotel, the site of the Long Island bar mitzvah you could never afford to have, the classiest strip club in Bayonne, New Jersey. On a recent Friday night, the clientele was mostly old and white, a pre-theater dinner crowd that appeared to clear out at precisely 7:45 PM.
And, for a restaurant with a fishing rod and and a gun on its crest (it has its own crest!), the menu offers a scant three items for which either tool would be required – salmon, sea bass and a bison burger. Most of the menu is either shellfish or steak.
I found myself at Anthony Scaramucci's Times Square-adjacent steakhouse, along with three female friends, also journalists, with the goal of trying to understand what, exactly, its owner has been up to since leaving the White House in an obscene blaze of glory nine months ago. What better place to contemplate the question than from his personal booth? (A sign, emblazoned with the HFC crest, hangs just above the table; it reads simply "Anthony Scaramucci."
And, of course, we wanted to try the food, including what the restaurant boasts is "the best steak in NYC."
n the time since Scaramucci left the Trump administration, the former hedge funder has launched a Twitter account, @ScaramucciPost, best known for its poll asking how many people died in the Holocaust. (The Twitter presence is seemingly untethered to ScaramucciPost.com, a Medium account filled with posts written before the 2016 election). He’s appeared on cable news too, to offer trenchant insights into Trumpworld. ("If I had to flip a coin, is [Michael] Cohen going to turn on President Trump? ...I would say adamantly no," he recently opined on MSNBC.) And, last Thursday, according to Page Six, his restaurant was set to host a "'Sugar Social,' where 25 'invited gentlemen' will meet for cocktails and dinner with 35 'stunning women'" seeking money-for-sex arrangements. (A representative from Hunt & Fish Club contacted Rolling Stone shortly after publication to clarify that the event did not take place as advertised.)
Scaramucci's publicist told Page Six the event in question was being organized by a private club, but since the Hunt & Fish Club opened in 2015, the steakhouse has embraced its characterization as the kind of place where "beauties trawl for sugar daddies;" a "haunt for bigwigs hunting for new deals and beauties fishing for rich husbands." A 49-year-old woman who was interviewed at the time of the opening described the restaurant as making a woman "feel like a lobster, just like, ready to be declawed." (According to the Post, Mob Wives star Carla Facciolo, 48, agreed with this assessment at the time. "If girls want to meet some men," Facciolo said in 2015, "this is where you meet them."
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/anthony-scaramucci-new-york-restaurant-w519445?utm_source=rsnewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=daily&utm_campaign=042818_12
I thought places like this went out with the eighties. Guess I don't get out much.
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